Eul comes to UMSL after six seasons at Minot State, where he compiled a 159-102 record and made the postseason five times. (Photo courtesy: Minot State Athletics)

Torrance Terrell
Staff Writer

ST. LOUIS, MO -– The University of Missouri-St. Louis Athletics Department announced on Tuesday that it has hired Scott Eul to be the new head coach of the Triton baseball program. Eul will be the sixth head coach in program history.

“We are excited that Scott has accepted our offer to lead our baseball program,” Flanagan said, in a statement released by the UMSL sports information department. “He has established himself as a successful coach in a strong Division II conference, the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. Our UMSL baseball program has had a rich tradition and our goal is competing for conference and NCAA championships.”

Eul comes to UMSL after six outstanding seasons at Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota. In those six years, Eul transformed the Beavers into one of the top programs in the NSIC by accumulating a 159-102 overall record, which included a 118-57 mark in NSIC play. He led the Beavers to the NSIC Tournament five times and had nine players under his tutelage sign professional contracts.

This past season, Minot State went 28-23 overall and 20-12 in conference play. The Beavers advanced to the second round on the NSIC Tournament and had seven players named to the NSIC All-Conference teams.

“I want to thank Lori, and the rest of the UMSL staff, in the time they took in this hiring process and ultimately to my hire,” Eul said. “I am excited to build on the tradition in which UMSL has built within the baseball program. UMSL offers and incredible mix of quality education, affordable price, and athletic excellence, and I feel we can compete for conference and regional championships in the very near future. I can’t wait to get this thing rolling.”

The 2021 Beavers finished 24-17 overall and 22-12 in conference. Left-handed reliever Jordan Chappell earned NSIC Second-Team Honors and infielder Ryley Humrighouse was named to the NSIC All-Defensive Team.

The 2020 season was abbreviated due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Beavers were 8-6 overall, 0-0 in the NSIC, at the time that the remainder of the season was cancelled.

In 2019, Eul led the Beavers to another historic season. They rewrote the record books at Minot State having the highest stolen base percentage (.896), most at-bats, most runs scored, most triples, most RBI, most total bases, most walks, most stolen bases, and most stolen base attempts in school history. Additionally, they broke many team records on the pitching mound.

These include records for lowest opponent batting average, most strikeouts in a nine-inning game, most wins, most strikeouts, most strikeouts looking, and most runners picked off. Eul led the Beavers to the NSIC Tournament Championship game.

In 2018, Eul led Minot State to the best season in school history as the Beavers captured their first-ever NSIC regular-season championship. Minot State finished the season with a 29-6 record in conference play to finish at the top the league standings.

Under Eul, Minot State was 34-16 overall, which marked the most wins in single-season history for the program. For his efforts, Eul was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Central Region Coach of the Year as well as earning NSIC Coach of the Year honors. Five Beavers were named to the All-NSIC Team, and Celestino Rodriguez was named All-Central Region Honorable Mention.

In his first season at Minot State in 2017, the Beavers qualified for the NSIC tournament for the first time since joining the league. The Beavers tied a school record for wins in a season with 29, going 29-22 on the year, including a 23-17 mark in NSIC play.

Minot State also won its first postseason game in the program’s NCAA Division II history, topping Minnesota Crookston 3-2 at the NSIC Tournament. Eul coached two All-NSIC individuals as Jordan Schulz was named to the First-Team, and Michael Borst was a Second-Team selection.

Schulz added an NSIC Gold Glove Award to his conference honors. Eul also coached Schulz to the NCBWA All-Central Region Second Team following a stellar senior season.

Overall, Minot State was ranked in the top five in 19 statistical categories in the NSIC, including second in on-base percentage (.389), third in slugging percentage (.437), and fourth in batting average (.302). The Beavers were also fourth in earned run average in the league (4.45) and sixth overall in fielding percentage (.962).

Before coming to Minot State, Eul, a native of Rosemount, Minn., spent two seasons helping build St. Cloud State into a national powerhouse and has five seasons of coaching experience from American Legion Baseball, Beach Collegiate League and NCAA Division II level.

He spent the previous two seasons as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator and earned his Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Administration at St. Cloud State. Eul helped the Huskies to a 97-15 overall record, and the nation’s No. 1 ranked team in NCAA Division II that season.

The Huskies started both 2015 and 2016 with a record of 23-0 and earned Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Tournament titles in 2015 and 2016 and were the 2015 NSIC regular-season champions. SCSU was ranked nationally in multiple pitching categories during his coaching career, including leading the nation in shutouts and hits allowed in 2015 along with being fourth in DII in ERA.

Eul had a successful playing career at the University of North Dakota. He also earned his Bachelor’s degree in physical education at UND. He received his master’s degree in educational leadership and administration from St. Cloud State.

Eul began his collegiate coaching career at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. He served two seasons as the pitching coach, recruiting coordinator and strength & conditioning coach there. In addition to coaching at SCSU, he was involved in the Beach Collegiate League as the head coach for the Litchfield (S.C) Manowars. While there, the team earned league championships twice as well as runner up finishes three times.

Eul, and his wife Jordan, have a daughter, Britton, and told staff at Minot State that along with wanting to take on the challenge of turning around UMSL’s baseball program, another big reason for their family’s plan to move to St. Louis was to be closer to other family that live in Missouri.

The UMSL sports information department contributed some information to this story.